13 May Alice Heather: workbook/diary entries
Diary Entries / Workbook
Week 1
Monday 28th January 2019 2pm-5pm
Aims: Module introduction, expectations & voice coaching with Vanessa
- Multimedia storytelling is becoming more sophisticated
- Mobile devices and mobile journalism is overtaking desktop and laptop news production and consumption
- Continue to develop voice coaching and presentation skills
- Develop analytical, critical and production skills
- Cross-platform storytelling
- Understanding mobile and tablet news consumption and how it’s different to traditional methods of consumption
Thursday 31st January 10am-5pm
Aims: Newsroom refresher, inception, radio studio. Run a live radio and tv programme using material available from agencies and including press review and studio discussion.
- We produced a short live discussion show. I worked on the production desk and used Adobe After Effects to alter the opening credits to fit our programme. I was also responsible for pulling a 60 second clip from an online library of a celebrity interview which the hosts viewed and discussed in our show. I also pulled some relevant Tweets to show during the broadcast. During the live show, I was responsible for VFX and played the credits and interview clips.
Skills: Knowledge of After Effects, multimedia teamwork, collaboration, professional practice.
Week 2
Monday 4th February 2019 10am – 5pm
Aims: Voice coaching in pairs. Live discussion show meeting. Develop stories for panel discussion supporting different views.
Skills: Professional practice, using autocue, presenting, interactive ‘naturally’ using a script
Thursday 7th February 2019 10am-5pm
Aims: Live programme – press review and panel discussion
Absent – illness. Worked on competition proposal from home.
Week 3
Thursday 14th February 2019 10am-1pm
Aims: Audiograms – producing audiograms for websites and social media. Mojo.
- We discussed current news values. We spoke a lot about audio-visual content…stories that have photographs, video, audio, infographics. We also discussed the shareability of stories. Stories that are likely to be shared across social media such as Facebook shares and comments, retweets on Twitter etc. We picked a story each and created an account on Headliner…a website where you can make your own audiogram online. It was great to use this new platform.
2pm-4pm WME Summer internship guest speaker
- An interesting talk from a HR person at WME. Great to hear from people like this as it is motivating and eye-opening however she was extremely over the top and yet again offering an unrealistic internship which the average working class student couldn’t do. She said things like “you want to work in movies? Cool we’ll send you to Hollywood. You want to work in fashion, cool we’ll send you to New York City!” …. all unpaid work…..yet again most likely relying on the bank of mum and dad…. Left the talk feeling a weird mix of inspired but deflated. Especially once she said that more than 800 people had already applied.
Week 4
Monday 18th February 2019 10am-5pm
Aims: Mobile Journalism – video (producing, editing, managing content, broadcasting live) and live show
- There is a big focus on mobile journalism in this module. In today’s session Vanessa talked us through filming and editing on a mobile device. This is challenging and requires time and good technique yet from a creative point of view – well made video content can be produced on any device.
- Myself and Isla produced a local TV news bulletin produced on my iPhone 7. Vanessa gave us a list of stories to save time and we planned a route around SE1. I was impressed with how good quality the videos I took on my phone were. Back in the newsroom, due to a lack of storage on my phone I couldn’t edit on there so edited on my laptop instead – using premiere pro. Vanessa said she was impressed with our work.
Skills: Professional practice, shooting on mobile, editing on mobile, working to tight deadline
Week 5
Thursday 29th February 2019 10am-5pm
Aims: Shorthand presentation
Mobile Journalism audio (producing, editing, managing content, broadcasting live) Live radio show
Interesting talk from Shorthand – an online platform where you can produce creative copy.
Week 6
Monday 4th March 2019 10am-4pm
Aims: Multi-camera shoot and event journalism, short debate live show
- Prep for covering panel discussion show international women’s day
Wednesday 6th March 2019 12pm-8pm
Live panel discussion, floating cam
- Spent all day prepping and organising the set for this evenings live panel discussion for international women’s day hosted by LJ. Setting up lighting, organising cameras, liaising with organisers. George was filming from the back of the lecture theatre; Isla was filming in the centre and focusing on getting one and two shots and I manned the roaming camera…picking up audience reactions and getting more creative shots of the panel guests. Celebrity guest and comedian Shappi Khorsandi did half an hour of stand up at the beginning of the evening. I noticed she kept mentioning the fact she was being filmed so I was wondering if she was told the event was being filmed. We also asked her for an interview at the end of the night which she declined – one of the organisers told us that her agent didn’t tell her the event was being filmed…. we had to wait for her to confirm if we could even use any of the footage at all.
Week 7
Thursday 14th March 2019 11:30am-1pm
Aims: John Lubbock from Wikimedia – guest speaker
- First half interesting, second half not so much
Week 8
Monday 18th March 2019 10am-5pm
Aims: Assessed news day
- I was assigned role of cross-platform reporter for our level 6 assessed news day.
Week 9
Global Campus Network relay show cancelled
Week 10
Aims: Voice and voice AI production, live bulletins for Smart Speakers, Alexa, Google Home, Siri
Week 11+12
Working on and finalising competition entry. I decided my piece would be more appropriate for the London Voices competition for 2019.
